Monday June 4, 2012 is World Invocation Day, also known as the Christ’s Festival. A gigantic group meditation is going on in many different phases upon our planet. All the meditating units and the reflective groups are related to each other through the unity of spiritual motive, which is the use of the Great Invocation, a world prayer expressing truths central to all the major religions; the spiritual co-operation of men and women of goodwill of every faith joining in a united act of invocation to divinity and the distribution into human consciousness of the spiritual energies evoked during the Festivals of Easter and Wesak.The Easter Festival is the great western festival and spiritual high point of the Christian year, and has the keynote of love and is always fixed by the date of the full moon of Aries, the first full moon after the vernal equinox. The Wesak Festival is the great eastern festival of the Buddha expressing the keynotes of wisdom and divine purpose, and follows one month after Easter at the time of the Taurus full moon. The Christ’s Festival and World Invocation Day is the festival of the Christ, and is celebrated at the time of the full moon of Gemini. It has the keynote of humanity, aspiring to God and blending many different spiritual approaches in one united act of invocation. It has been observed since 1952 as World Invocation Day. Lucis TrustEvents in the world leave us perplexed as we witness the contrast between light and dark, between truth and falsehood and between freedom and ‘imprisonment’ play itself out in the world, and in the human mind. The kaleidoscopic interplay of energies directed towards the human family has been palpable. “It is encouraging to see the right response of humanity to these challenges. The march for freedom and human rights, good governance, a growing international co-operation and the proliferation of serving groups are just some of the visible developments which are indicative of the struggle towards spiritual emancipation.” Triangles Bulletin, No. 179, March 2012. Preparation by men and women of goodwill is needed to introduce new values for living, new standards of behaviour, new attitudes of non-separateness and co-operation, leading to right human relations and a world at peace. Please join us in observing the World Invocation Day through the united use of the Great Invocation, and aid us in creating a new world based on spiritual values and a reorganised social structure.ArabicThis month we feature the Great Invocation in Arabic. Arabic is spoken in the following countries in Africa: Algeria, Chad, Comores, Djibouti, Eritrea, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan and South Sudan, Tanzania - widely spoken in Zanzibar, Tunisia and in the Western Sahara Moroccan Arabic is in use. Click here to see the map of Africa where Arabic is spoken.